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A`Manuf@ctureof Hats, Gaps and Bonnets.

N0. 237,862. A Patented Feb. 15,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE H. HASTINGS AND ROBERT H. OREAN, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

MANUFACTURE OF HATS, CAPS, AND BONNETS.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 237,862, dated February 15, 1881.

Application filed March 5,1880. (Model.) Patented in Canada October 27, 1879.

To all whom it may concern 1 Be it known that we, GEORGE H. HAsTrNGs and ROBERT H. CREAN, of Toronto, county of York, Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Hats, Oaps, and Bonnets, of which the following is a specification.

Figure l represents a form of a hat. Fig. 2 represents a hat of different shape. Fig. 3 represents a blank from which the hats are formed, and Eig. 4: shows the manner of sewing the strips together.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

Our invention relates more particularly to improvements in the manufacture of hats and similar articles of clothing from textile material, such as shoddy, camels hair, tweed, velvet, linen, Src.; and the invention consists in cutting the shoddy orv other material into strips, which are then sewed togetherin squares of any required size. These squares are then stif'ened with glue or shellac, or any other suitable material, and pressed out upon dies to any shape that may be required. A The strips may also be sewed to any desired shape (instead of being first sewed in blanks) prior to being stift'ened to that shape, and afterward pressed either by hand or machinery. The shoddy or other material may be cut and sewed in parallel lines, or diagonally in combination, or in any shape that taste may suggest, and the material may be sewed in such a way as to produce the appearance of being corded.

In the drawings,A represents the strips cut from the material of which the hat, cap, or bonnet is to be made. These strips are parallel and cut in suitable lengths. The edges of these strips A are then lapped one over the other a sufficient distance and sewed together near one edge of the laps. The tension of the stitches draws the strips closely together, and causes the nearest edge to turn upward and rounding in a manner closely resembling cordin g or ribbing, which is very marked when thick material, such as shoddy or felt, is employed. When a sufficient numbery of strips are thus joined they form the blank7 shown in Fig. 3. This blank is stiffened with glue, shellac,

orfother suitable material, and drawn over a shaping-block with the turned edges outward, on which, by the application of pressure, in the usual way, the blank is formed intoa hat, cap, or bonnet of the desired shape and then trimmed. The blanks may then be cut into sections, and the lines ot' the strips may be placed parallel, diagonally, or in any form de sired, and as a modification strips or edgings of a different material may be inserted in the blanks at intervals, or alternately, or in every lap. After the article is shaped on the dies the strips do not necessarily preserve their original regularity, as their width may be increased or narrowed by the shaping-dies Without destroying the effect of the combination.

The advantages of our invention are, that beautiful and artistic and durable articles of clothing may be produced at small cost from inexpensive materials.

We are aware that cut strips of cloth or felt have been sewed concentrically together, also alternate strips of cloth and straw; but the hat, cap, or bonnet required to be afterward stiffened, while my strips are stiffened in the piece before the sewing takes place, as, if done afterward, it greatly impairs the corded appearance. In its application to caps, hats, gaiters, belts, trimmings. mantles, or dresses, the shortest strips may beworked in, such as could not be used in sewing continuous lengths concentrically.

What we claim as new and of our invention 1. A method of manufacturing articles of dress, which consists in stiffening textile or semi-textile strips and then sewing them together with lapped edges to present a corded or ribbed appearance, as described.

2. An article of dress formed of partly or wholly textile material, and con sistingof strips stiffened and sewed together with lapped edges, so as to present a ribbed appearance, as described.

GEORGE HENRY HASTINGS. ROBERT HENRY OREAN.

Witnesses HENRY UHIDLEY, HENRIETTA FosTER. 

